Dated on paper evidence by WILC (Watermarks in Incunabula printed in the Low Countries). Dated about 1484-87 by Hellinga, W. & L. The fifteenth-century printing types of the Low Countries.

Title from caption, a2 recto, column 2.

Imprint derived from colophon ([con]8 recto): Presens opus ruralium co[m]modorum Petri de cresce[n]tiis hoc industrioso caracterisandi stilo ad cuncto[rum] utilitatem omnipotentis dei suffra-gio nouissime impressum e[st]. in domo Iohannis de westfalia. Alma ac florentissima in vniuersitate Louanie[n]si.

Signatures: a-n⁸ o⁶ p-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁶ (a1 blank)

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, IX, 151

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C967

Incunabula short title catalogue, ic00967000

COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.404.86 FOLIO imperfect: a1 (blank) and [con]2.5 wanting. Rubricated in red throughout. Impressions from partially inked bearer types on [con]6. Leaf dimensions: 284 x 210 mm.

PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.404.86 FOLIO with bookplate of the BPL Benton Funds. Dealer's notes, etc. Inscribed at the head of a2 in an early hand: "nota quod liber iste hic incipiat." Books numbered in an early hand in the upper margin of each recto. Early/contemporary marginalia. On [con]6 verso, half-page inscription, in an early/contemporary hand, here not transcribed. Purchased from Lathrop C. Harper (catalog 17, no. 26) in March, 1963.

BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.404.86 FOLIO bound in 19th-century quarter calfskin and marble boards. Spine panelled and tooled in gilt with black leather labels.

a1 blank -- Crescentiis, Petrus de. [Letter to] Aimericus de Placentia, a2 reco -- Rubricae, a2 recto-a6 recto -- Crescentiis, Petrus de. Ruralia commoda, a6 recto-[con]6 recto; colophon, [con]6 recto (verso blank).

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